Light Quotes - page 20

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation. (François Fénelon)
There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? View quote
Don DeLillo
For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound. View quote
Martin Amis
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media! View quote
Karl Rove
There was no use in pretending, No magic left to hear. All the music gave me Was a craving for light beer. View quote
Tom Petty
To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream. View quote
Ernest Solvay
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. View quote
John Fletcher
'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen," I continued "A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman. (James Marsters)
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. View quote
Marianne Williamson
These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer. View quote
David Foster Wallace
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. View quote
David Lee Roth
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it. View quote
Sadegh Hedayat
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. View quote
Thomas Moore
The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. View quote
Thomas Moore
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. View quote
Thomas Gray
From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. View quote
Thomas Gray